She described a gleeful kid who liked to hum, tell jokes and make up silly dances.īut there were some things that made him different from other children his age.įor instance, she said, Aiden regularly came into her room to sit down on the floor next to her while she was on her computer. Then, the two played together.Īlexis said her little brother was an “angel, too pure and innocent for this world.” Her voice trembled when she recalled how Aiden would call her “beautiful” or “so lovely.” You don’t have to talk,” he said in a gentle voice, extending a hand to help the boy up. Most of the boys around him ran away.Īiden knelt down eye to eye with the child, who had said he didn’t want to talk. One day at the playground, a boy with autism flung himself to the ground.

The 6-year-old had an uncanny ability to empathize with others.

A reward for information about the fatal shooting grew to $500,000.Īt a memorial service Saturday, Aiden’s mother, his sister Alexis and grandmother recalled memories of the young boy, whom they described as a “little empath,” mature beyond his years. Hundreds of people attended a memorial service at Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda, where Aiden Leos was remembered for his ability to empathize with others. “That shouldn’t happen.”Ĭalifornia Boy killed in freeway road rage shooting is mourned: ‘Too pure and innocent for this world’ “There was no reason, no justification to shoot a child,” he said. military, said seeing a child shot was especially hard to take.

“It went through the boy’s back,” he said. Valdivia looked at the car and realized a bullet had entered the left side of the trunk and struck the child. In an interview last month, Valdivia recounted how he and his wife, Joanna, had just dropped their children off at school when they spotted Cloonan pulling her bleeding son from the car. Witnesses reported hearing a gunshot from a white sedan right before the child’s mother pulled over to the shoulder of the freeway. A law enforcement source who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case said the two who were arrested Sunday fit the description of the pair in the white car. The CHP released photos of a 2018 or 2019 white Volkswagen Golf SportWagen that investigators said the suspects were in. Two people have been arrested in the alleged road rage incident. California Photos: Remembering 6-year-old Aiden Leos, killed in alleged road rage shootingĪiden Leos was fatally shot while riding in his mother’s car on the 55 in Orange.

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